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| After Reaching A Mature Age, Most People Drop Their Religion And Substitute A Spiritual Idea That Makes More Sense To Them. |
| After reaching the age of 16, I became much more responsible and mature which led me to question many of the beliefs I formally believed in. Religion was the most significant issue I had come to question. I use to be Catholic, but remembering every thing about my Religion I thought perhaps maybe it came to us humans, not through fact and reality, but through ways we can explain superstition, create hope, and control the mass population. It really makes more sense. Has that happened to anyone else? |
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Yeah I feel I eventually did that. For along time I actually thought I was a good little Christian,
followed the rules and thought the Bible was perfect. Then I decided to read a bit more of it than
rely on what I'd been told and taught and found myself disagreeing with it a lot of it and turned
more to science and set my own moral law book. After time I distanced myself from religion and now
am definetly an atheist. I believe the mind and conscious does go on but not in a biblical or
religious sense. |
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That's what I did. My primary school forced us to sing hymns and prayer. As soon as I left for
secondary school, I dropped everything even remotely religious and now am athiest |
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16 is not mature. But I agree, when children grow older they can question the beliefs given to them
by their parents. |
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I like it. I think I too fall into this category. In fact I think most normal humans do. |
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I don't know if they do. But they definitely should. |
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In general that's true.
What I find most interesting is what retirement age people do. Two of the older women in my life
became ultra religious believers, much more so than in their first 50 years of life, yet the dogma
they believe in now is more their own carefully cherry picked set of beliefs from the Bible than the
views being pushed by their church group. It's as if as they get closer to death they greatly fear
what will happen to them soon yet they really don't trust their own church got the answer completely
right. Instead they rush to try to find their own path in the few years they have left. |
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I was raised a strict Roman Catholic where, until I was nearly 10, the Mass was said in Latin and
women wore head-covers. We were well versed in hell-fire and damnation and I was positive I would
burn in Hell for all eternity for all of my alleged transgressions.
I am now 46 and have a firm belief in a loving, forgiving God who knows my heart and mind and does
not judge me but guides me to my best life in service of Him.
Simplistic? Maybe. Life-saving? You bet! |
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I think you might be overstating it a bit. I think you could say many people begin to examine their
beliefs at a certain age, but that’s quibbling. I know I did, when I reached a certain age. What I
had been taught just didn't jibe with me. My grandmother never did forgive me. I refused to keep
going to Catholic Church at the age of 12 because I was thinking about my beliefs. Well when I
refused to go it caused a bit of a stampede. Turns out my aunt and two uncles were only going
because they were afraid of grandma. |
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What the question really means is that people pick and choose the bits and pieces of religion that
suit them and throw away all those little parts that don't fit with there lifestyle choices. Faith
isn't a designer suit that you can tailor to your own tastes and dislikes. You either choose to
believe in what you were brought up to believe or you don't. I think its rich that people want it
all ways. |
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